Diversity Videos from Barnard College, Columbia University

ABOUT FACE

This film focuses on seven students and one alumna of Barnard College, in New York City. In individual interviews, they speak about their Asian heritage as it relates to issues of their identity, family, relationships, and college experience. Through poignant personal accounts, viewers have the rare opportunity to learn about what it means to be a young Asian woman in the United States. (25 mins.)

INDIVISIBLE

This film, featuring five African-American students and five African-American alumnae of Barnard College, in New York City, explores issues of their identity, their relationshsips with their mothers and fathers, and with men and women, prejudice, and their college experiece. Through individual interviews, the subjects speak about some of the joys and pains of being Black women at Barnard College from the 1950's to the present and express their feelings about being black women in the United States today. (40 mins.)

OYEME (hear me)

In a 34-minute video, produced in 1997, several currently enrolled Latina students and recent alumnae and some of their mothers describe their experiences adapting to life in the United States and at Barnard College. This series of intimate interviews elicits thoughts and feelings about education, religion, family, identity, language, and racism. In recounting their personal and family histories, these women discuss the influences of Argentinean, Chilean, Colombian, Cuban, El Salvadorian,Mexican and Puerto Rican heritages.

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